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Watch: Kristīne Opolais and Christopher Maltman on Manon Lescaut’s innocence...
Mimì, Butterfly, Liù, and even Tosca (to a certain extent) - Giacomo Puccini bestows the quality of innocence on his most famous heroines.You could even argue it’s precisely their innate naivety or...
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Watch: Members of the cast and creative team on Manon Lescaut
Kristīne Opolais as Manon Lescaut and Jonas Kaufmann as Chevalier des Grieux in Manon Lescaut, The Royal Opera © ROH / Bill Cooper 2014 Jonathan Kent’s new production of Puccini’s Manon Lescaut,...
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Your reaction: Manon Lescaut in cinemas 2014
Kristīne Opolais as Manon Lescaut and Jonas Kaufmann as Chevalier des Grieux in Manon Lescaut, The Royal Opera © ROH / Bill Cooper 2014 First experience of opera watching #ROHlescaut at Vue cinema....
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How to Stage an Opera: the ugliness of Manon Lescaut
Kristīne Opolais as Manon Lescaut and Jonas Kaufmann as Chevalier des Grieux in Manon Lescaut, The Royal Opera © ROH / Bill Cooper 2014 Our' How to Stage an Opera' series offers different perspectives...
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Manon Lescaut to be broadcast in US cinemas during summer 2014
Kristīne Opolais as Manon Lescaut and Jonas Kaufmann as Chevalier des Grieux in Manon Lescaut, The Royal Opera © ROH / Bill Cooper 2014 Jonathan Kent’s new production of Puccini’s Manon Lescaut,...
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Nominations for Olivier Awards 2015 announced
Jonas Kaufmann as Andrea Chénier in Andrea Chénier © ROH. Bill Cooper 2015 The nominations for the Olivier Awards 2015 have been announced. The ceremony will take place at the Royal Opera House on...
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Opera in the City of Love: Paris as muse
‘Ah! How delightful to leave the dreary countryside for Paris, beautiful Paris that Love must have created!’ wrote the poet Guillaume Apollinaire. The image of Paris as the city of love has inspired...
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Puccini unpacked: A guide to one of the most-loved operatic composers
Giacomo Puccini photographed by Studio Bertieri, 1907 Operatic Beginnings: Le villi and Edgar Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) is arguably the world’s most popular opera composer – but it took several years...
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Amazing ballet and opera settings that will make you want to travel
View over Paris, at dusk, from the Maine-Montparnasse tower ‘For I assure you, without travel, at least for people from the arts and sciences, one is a miserable creature!’ stated Wolfgang Amadeus...
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Musical Highlight: ‘Donna non vidi mai’ from Manon Lescaut
Jonas Kaufmann as Des Grieux in Manon Lescaut, The Royal Opera © ROH/Bill Cooper, 2014 From the first line of this famous tenor aria from Act I of Puccini’s Manon Lescaut we know exactly what this...
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Opera Essentials: Puccini’s Manon Lescaut
Kristine Opolais as Manon Lescaut and Jonas Kaufmann as Chevalier des Grieux in Manon Lescaut, The Royal Opera © ROH / Bill Cooper 2014 The Story Begins… The young Chevalier des Grieux and the...
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Puccini’s Manon Lescaut musical highlight: The intermezzo
The view from the main stage Orchestra Pit at the Royal Opera House © ROH/Sim Canetty-Clarke, 2014 Manon Lescaut was Puccini’s first great success – despite a difficult birth. No fewer than seven...
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Your Reaction: What did you think of Puccini's Manon Lescaut?
Sondra Radvanovsky and Aleksandrs Antonenko in Manon Lescaut, The Royal Opera © ROH 2016. Photo by Bill Cooper Wonderful to hear Sondra Radvanovsky at Covent Gdn: so much voice! As amazing in verismo...
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Contemporary truths in Manon Lescaut: a powerful glimpse into modern slavery
Levente Molnár and Sondra Radvanovsky in Manon Lescaut, The Royal Opera © ROH 2016. Photo by Bill Cooper Puccini’s opera Manon Lescaut is based on the 18th-century novel by French writer Abbé Prévost....
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Why Manon Lescaut launched Puccini into operatic stardom
Giacomo Puccini in 1907 By Studio Bertieri Until the premiere of Manon Lescaut, Puccini’s career progress was erratic. His first opera, Le villi in 1884, was well received, but his second, Edgar, had a...
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